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JEWISHVOL 44, NO 2 JOURNALJEWISHJOURNAL.ORG Rabbis prepare, pray, and ponder before the High Holidays

By Michael Wittner Jews,’” said Perlman. “But at least JOURNAL STAFF they come, and at least they have some reason for coming, and During Elul, the month they’re relying on the messenger before the start of the High of the people to get their message Holidays, the shofar is sound- across to God …and they require ed every morning. After a slow the professional who’s trained to summer, this can have a jar- talk to God to do it for them.” ring effect, and that’s exactly To prepare for the spiritual, the point. emotional, and logistical chal- “It’s a quiet summer, most lenges of facilitating a meaning- rabbis take a few weeks off in ful experience for hundreds of the summer, nobody plans bar people, rabbis begin by turn- mitzvahs, and then boom! We ing inward. Some prefer quiet blast the shofar every morning, meditation, like Schusterman, and then you get in the spir- who swears off the noise and it,” said Rabbi David Cohen- chatter of his smartphone until Henriquez of Temple Sinai in after Yom Kippur, and instead Marblehead. goes to Lynch Park in Beverly to But what exactly is that spir- read, write, and think in front of it? What should it be, and how Rabbi David Meyer Rabbi Richard Perlman Rabbi Nechemia Schusterman the ocean. Perlman opts for a does it actually play out? The slightly louder form of medita- High Holidays – Rosh Hashanah, Rabbis on the North Shore “If I could move one person, if Peabody, finds joy in serving as tion – he says he does some of Sept. 29-Oct. 1, and Yom Kippur, see the High Holidays as a rare I move 100, 300 people – if I can a conduit between God and his his best thinking while mowing Oct. 8-9 – are an exceptionally chance to connect many people move anyone slightly further in congregation, including those his lawn. busy and important time for with God, and they take that task their Judaism, even if it’s simply who rarely attend services. “I The rabbis spend the month synagogues. These solemn, holy very seriously. to have a greater passion and joy was always taught that on Rosh before the High Holidays pre- days are the only time of year “The goal is to connect in their Judaism, then mission Hashanah and Yom Kippur, paring as many as four sermons, when most of the congregation and move people,” said Rabbi accomplished.” people who come specifically which means a lot of reading. is in the synagogue, ready to Nechemia Schusterman of Rabbi Richard Perlman for that – people sometimes say, “We’re a very sermon-centric pray and to listen. Chabad Lubavitch of Peabody. of Temple Ner Tamid, also in ‘Oh, they’re three-times-a-year continued on page 18 Books that will delight kids Jay and Shira Ruderman receive on the High Holidays Jacob Rader Marcus Award

By Penny Schwartz CINCINNATI – The JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT American Jewish Archives last night honored Jay and Usher in the Jewish New Year with a crop of new children’s books for the High Shira Ruderman with the Holidays and Sukkot. Kids of all ages will enjoy cracking open the covers of these Jacob Rader Marcus Award, stories that glow with the warmth and joy of Jewish traditions. in recognition of their ongo- ing efforts to expose Israelis “Whale of a Tale” to the American Jewish Eric A. Kimmel; illustrations by Ivica community and strengthen Stevanovic ties between the two. The Ages 6-10 ceremony took place at the historic Cincinnati Campus Master tale-weaver Eric A. Kimmel takes of Hebrew Union College - school-age kids on a rollicking time-travel Jewish Institute of Religion. adventure back to ancient Israel at the time For years, the Ruderman of Jonah, a perfect story in advance of Yom Family Foundation has Kippur when the Book of Jonah is read during worked to educate Israelis synagogue services. In this third installment of about American Jewry Kimmel’s Scarlet and Sam chapter book series, and that community’s sig- the adventure begins when the twin sister nificant impact on Israel’s and brother mistakenly leave their Grandma future. The Foundation’s Mina’s special Persian rug in the trunk of a cab programs in this sector driven by a man named Jonah. Suddenly, they have included the estab- are transported to ancient Israel, where they lishment, at the University stow away on a ship and reunite with Jonah. of Haifa, of Israel’s only They learn he is the prophet who is avoiding academic program focused God’s directive to travel to Nineveh. The light- exclusively on studying the hearted caper introduces kids to the outlines of the biblical tale, as Sam, Scarlet, American Jewish commu- Jay Ruderman, President of the Ruderman Family and Jonah go overboard and are swallowed up in the belly of a big fish. The clever nity, as well as the organi- Foundation; Shira Ruderman, Executive Director of the siblings are determined to get Jonah to be true to his faith and to get their grand- zation of numerous visiting Ruderman Family Foundation; and Dr. Gary P. Zola, mother’s rug back. Ivica Stevanovic’s animated illustrations embellish the story. Executive Director of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center continued on page 16 continued on page 21 of the American Jewish Archives.

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On the High Holidays, memories of growing up Jewish By Michael Wittner Singer sewing machine, along fleisch (an Ashkenazi pot roast), JOURNAL STAFF with his baseball caps. along with matzah ball soup Arthur only wore that yar- and apples and honey. PEABODY – “The memories mulke on the High Holidays, Just like his wife’s bubbe, – they’re still as clear as day,” which was the only time of year Arthur’s grandmother cooked said Margo Suckney in a little he went to the Chestnut Street a whole meal from her head. alcove of the Harriett and Ralph Shul. “Necessity knows no laws “When somebody asked her Kaplan Estates, an assisted liv- – you had to go,” he said. “If you what to do, she’d say, ‘A pinch ing facility in Peabody where were Jewish, you had to go.” He of this, a pinch of that’ – she residents sip coffee and look didn’t mind services too much, had everything in her mind, and out the window. Outside, the because he went to Chelsea never wrote anything down,” he sky was a cloudless cobalt, bril- Hebrew School and knew some said. liantly clear. of the prayers. What’s more, On Yom Kippur, Arthur and The first leaves are getting back in the ’40s and ’50s, the his family followed up his bub- red around the edges, and shul was completely full, and be’s break the fast with a tradi- another year is coming to an Arthur enjoyed being with the tion just as Jewish: they went end. Margo and Arthur Suckney other neighborhood kids, some out for Chinese food. recently sold their house in of whom he only saw once a Arthur and Margo moved Peabody to move into assisted year. to Everett after they married, living. Amidst all the change, the But services were long – the because neither wanted to couple uses the High Holidays Margo and Arthur Suckney traditional Orthodox services move to the other’s home city. as an opportunity to indulge lasted from early in the morning In the ’80s, they relocated to in an ancient Jewish pastime: the Jewish delicacies,” she said. teach women in those days. till the sun set – and the sanc- Peabody, where they attend- remembering. Jews could get everything Arthur says the women up in tuary was hot. “We didn’t stay ed Temple Ner Tamid on the Margo, 74, remembers her they needed on Shirley Avenue, the balcony in his shul used to the whole day – you left after High Holidays. Margo taught bubbe’s kitchen on the High and Margo remembers walking spend the High Holiday services you got nauseated and hot and Hebrew school, and learned the Holidays, just off Shirley Avenue down a street where everyone gossiping, and it irritated the sweaty because they didn’t have prayers no one taught her as a in Revere, where she and her waved to her as she walked by. cantor. “The women would be air conditioning,” said Arthur. girl. They invited over friends two sisters were the “little bala- For a while, it was her whole up in the back, men in front, Out in the fresh air, Arthur went and she cooked some of their busta” assistants. world. “On the High Holidays, and the old cantor would get to his grandmother’s house, grandmother’s recipes – from “My mother’s mother lived we always thought all the stores mad once in a while, and slam where she made them gedempte memory, of course. with us, and she would cook were closed. My mom said, ‘Oh, his hand down on the podium – oh my God – the smell of I have to go up to Broadway and to keep them quiet,” he said. the gefilte fish, and you’d say cash a check,’ and I said, ‘What “But then they’d start up again ‘Bubbe, how do you make this?’” are you talking about, Ma? It’s a afterwards.” Margo remembered. “She’d say, Jewish holiday.’ She said, ‘We’re Arthur, 77, grew up in BAR MITZVAH ‘A little of this, a little of that.’ We Jewish down here, but the other Chelsea, where many of the just had to guess and remember part of Revere still goes on.’” synagogues were informally what she said.” On the High Holidays, a tru- named after the streets they HEADQUARTERS Margo still can taste those ant officer named Sam Samuels were on: there was the Walnut meals – gefilte fish, matzah ball walked through Revere’s shuls Street Shul, the Elm Street Shul, soup – to this day. In the ’40s and to make sure that the kids tak- the Chestnut Street Shul. Arthur ’50s, her bubbe Jennie could get ing off school were spending attended the Chestnut Street everything she needed on one their time in synagogue, and Shul, just like his father, and street: Shirley Avenue, the nexus not at the arcades and rides his father’s father. He always of Jewish life in Revere. that used to line Revere Beach. heard that his step-grandfather “When my father was And Margo was there, next to William Cohen was a carpenter around, he’d take her to the fish her mother, up in the balcony who helped build the shuls on store to buy the fish, and up the of Congregation Tifereth Israel Walnut Street and Elm Street. street from where we lived was with the rest of the women, try- His other grandfather, Nathan a slaughterhouse with chickens ing her best to keep up with Suckney, crafted the yarmulke and everything, so you’d get all prayers that no one wanted to he wore to temple on an old Boys Clothing For All Occasions! 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Gloucester congregation considers casting rocks – not bread – for Tashlich By Rich Tenorio New Year, according to the tem- Lewis said Pavilion Beach JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT ple’s website, taagloucester.org. is the closest to Ahavat Achim, When congregants have less than a mile away from the GLOUCESTER – The rabbi at gone to nearby Pavilion Beach historic synagogue that now Temple Ahavat Achim is inviting for Tashlich in past years, they includes 190 families. The beach congregants to try a new way of were distracted by some hun- has a further connection to the preparation for the ancient High gry visitors: not fish, but birds, temple: It is near the space the Holidays tradition of Tashlich in “a dozen squawking seagulls congregation used as a tempo- Gloucester. swirling around,” said Rabbi rary synagogue when its build- There would be no pieces Steven Lewis, who is now asking ing burned down in 2007. of bread thrown into the sea. congregants to consider beach Lewis describes the beach as Gathering at a local beach on stones as an alternative. a calm space situated at the end the afternoon of the first day “I came up with rocks because of Gloucester Harbor, making it of Rosh Hashanah, congregants they’re a natural thing from the possible to observe Tashlich at would work together to collect water,” Lewis explained. “Every either high or low tide. stones “that will be returned to local environmental agency will There’s something special the ocean as a physical symbol tell you not to feed the birds.” about the sea, said Lewis, who of our commitments to leave Using rocks “becomes a way to participated in Tashlich servic- behind unhealthy, stifling and create an opportunity for people es along the Charles River and Rabbi Steven Lewis destructive behaviors” in the to prepare a little deeper about the Brookline Reservoir while what opportunities [exist in the attending rabbinical school at month of] Elul; think about what Hebrew College in Newton. Workers’ Compensation possibilities exist in Tashlich “For me, the sea, the ocean, [other than] bird-feeding.” Congregants at Temple Ahavat is a more majestic landscape,” and Personal Injury Lawyers Achim are considering using Before becoming a rabbi, beach stones as it prepares for Lewis said. “Looking out into the Lewis’ background includ- Tashlich this year. ocean is kind of more awesome ed environmental education than on the banks of the Charles and community building. His what you want to do better in River. It sort of has a drama to it Tashlich idea incorporates both the coming year.” that way. of these components. The rabbi said at this point, “I think ... the ocean’s such a “It is one of the few Jewish the stones concept is “still an part of life in Gloucester,” Lewis rituals that are specifically sup- idea,” one to be discussed in said. “We see it, hear it, life is posed to take place outside,” sessions scheduled for Sept. 19 sort of connected to that feature Lewis said. “There’s an environ- and 22. of our landscape, much more mental component to Tashlich “I plan to attend his Tashlich deeply than in places I’ve lived that I can’t think of as [being] program as I am curious to or worked in that were right on (L-R): Attorneys Grace Harrington, Judson Pierce, Janice Skillings-Goff, in any other Jewish ritual. It see what it is about,” Temple the water. It’s much more mean- Alan Pierce, Susan McDonald, Daniel Napolitano appeals to me very much.” President Eric Kaplan wrote in ingful because of that.” Gathering and casting the an email. “Until then, I won’t be All of these factors have the 27 Congress Street rocks would be an exercise in able to comment much about rabbi hopeful about how his Suite 301 community building. “It’s much his program.” proposal will be received. Salem, MA 01970 more significant [if] people pre- “But,” Kaplan added, “I hope it’s successful, that pare, prepare together, do the “Knowing the Rabbi, his sug- people respond to it, find it Pierce, Pierce 978-745-0914 ritual together,” Lewis said. He gestion of using stones for our meaningful, and that it will be & Napolitano www.ppnlaw.com wants people to be engaged to sins instead of a huge amount of something we do every year,” attorneys at law “think about the past year, and bread makes sense to me.” Lewis said.

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Photogrpahy by A Photographic Memory COMMUNITY NEWS THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – SEPTEMBER 19, 2019 5 TheMillennials Forgot” by Lianne Moriarty Amanda Campbell, 29 Favorite TV show: “Friends” Hebrew name: Ora Favorite travel destination: The Maldives Hometown: Marblehead Somewhere you’d like to go next: Beverly Currently living in: Amsterdam and New Zealand Marblehead High School ’08 Alma mater: Favorite spot on the North Shore: Former preschool teacher, current stay-at-home Job: Marblehead Harbor mom Favorite Jewish person not in your Corn, sushi, chocolate chips, Favorite food: family: Rabbi Alison Adler [of Temple B’nai Abraham in lots of tea Beverly] – she’s super warm, welcoming, and she just has Streetlight Manifesto, Celine Dion Favorite music: a beautiful soul “No Second Chance” by Harlan Favorite books: Favorite Jewish holiday: Passover Coben, “Sarah’s Key” by Tatiana Derosnay, “What Alice What was your Jewish teaching is currently on hold, and I’ve lost the classroom atmosphere, I make sure to bring that with me into our background growing up? home. We light the candles for Shabbat, and in the first I grew up in Marblehead with my parents and my sis- Friday of every month, we actually host a family Shabbat ter. I attended Hebrew school at a young age at Temple at our home, which is a really nice tradition that Rob and That’s hard to say. I think often, we do what we see. Israel in Swampscott – remember that? It doesn’t exist I have started. Shabbat’s such a wonderful time for us to Millennials are growing up and trying to use what they anymore. Then I moved to Temple Emanu-El later. I was reflect on our week and remember how blessed we are learned and transform it into what makes them happy. bat mitzvahed there, and continued my Jewish educa- to be healthy, happy, and have one another. So everybody practices Judaism in their own way, and I tion through high school until I got confirmed. I actu- How did you teach JCC preschool- don’t think it matters how they do it, as long as they’re ally went to Hebrew school and on the Y2I trip with my doing it in a way that makes them feel good, and in a best friend and now husband, Rob Campbell, and we ers about Jewish tradition? way that works for their family. [My daughter] Thea isn’t also went to each other’s bar and bat mitzvahs. I think I planned my own curriculum for every theme we even one yet, so she definitely doesn’t have any of that it’s pretty special that we were able to experience such did, but since it’s the JCC and it’s a Jewish school, they knowledge, but I do look forward to when Thea can important moments together in our Jewish journeys. did want us to teach Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, join us in building these memories and creating Jewish My Jewish identity has always been pretty important but it was up to me how I wanted to bring that into roots of her own. My mom and I love the stories and the to me – as I grew up, I searched for my own way to stay the classroom. So I taught my kids through play, since traditions of Passover, and I’ve found that the memories involved in Jewish traditions. they’re so young, so a lot of the activities – like for Tu of putting together my mother’s gorgeous Seder plate What role does it currently BeShevat, which is all about the trees, I created pipe is just such a wonderful feeling when I think about it, cleaner trees, and then gave them buttons, because but- and we continue to do that to this day, and I look for- play in your life? tons have holes in them, and it helped their fine motor ward to when Thea will do that with us. I also have all of I was previously a preschool teacher at the JCC in skills to put the buttons on the pipe cleaners as if they my books and curricula and curriculum boxes – a box Marblehead. Working with my children is undoubt- were putting leaves on the trees. So that small activ- for birds, and a box for Rosh Hashanah, and a box for edly my passion, which I obviously get from my moth- ity – it teaches them about the trees, helps with their Hanukkah – and they’re all in my attic, so when Thea er, who’s a kindergarten teacher at Bell School [in fine motor skills, and just opens the conversation about gets old enough I’m going to turn the playroom into a Marblehead.] I love teaching, especially at a Jewish trees. Also we read a lot of PJ Library books in my class. small preschool room where it’ll have the days of the school. Jewish education is key so that our heritage will week, and it’ll have a little book nook, so we can start be reinforced in the present, and transmitted to the How are millennial parents learning together. future in the hearts and minds of our children. Since raising their kids Jewish? – Michael Wittner

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JEWISH JOURNAL Steven A. Rosenberg PUBLISHER/EDITOR In Israel, signs of a unity government hile the final results of Tuesday’s elec- candidate enters office. tion in Israel are still being counted, Prior to the election, Lieberman and Gantz Wit is clear at this point that neither advocated for a unity government, where Benjamin Netanyahu nor Benny Gantz, or Likud and Blue and White would rotate lead- their respective parties, Likud and Blue and ing the country. This appeals to many Israelis, White, have garnered enough support to form who believe the country cannot afford to hold a coalition to lead the next Israeli government. a third election. Israelis also want a govern- It takes at least 61 members out of the 120- ment to address myriad issues, ranging from seat Knesset to form a governing coalition, and a growing budget deficit to a delay in the with Prime Minister Netanyahu and former appointment of senior officials such as judges Chief of the General Staff of the IDF Gantz fin- and police chiefs. In addition, a government is ishing in a dead heat, each will turn to smaller needed to review President Trump’s upcoming parties in the coming days to try to form a regional peace plan, and also to act decisively government. This week’s election was Israel’s if its borders are threatened. second in 2019, after Netanyahu was unable to Israel has had successful national unity gov- form a government. ernments in the past, including a rotational Many see Avigdor Lieberman, a former premiership that included former prime min- defense minister under Netanyahu, as a king- isters Yitzhak Shamir and Shimon Peres in the maker in the election. Lieberman’s Yisrael mid-1980s. At a time of growing polarization Beitenu party – which has insisted on exclud- in the country, Israeli lawmakers would be ing the ultra-Orthodox from the next govern- wise to embrace a unity government and move ment – is poised to gain between 8 to 10 seats, forward in dealing with the country’s major and could play a major role in deciding which issues. Does Israel need a mutual defense pact with the United States? By Jonathan S. Tobin two countries might have complications. Still, the group believes that a treaty aybe it was just one more written in a way that would limit the attempt to help Israeli Prime commitment to existential threats, as MMinister Benjamin Netanyahu opposed to routine security problems win re-election. But whatever his moti- relating to terror, would avoid a lot of vation, President Donald Trump’s tweet problems. In that way, Israel would be that revealed he had discussed the pos- able to respond, as it has always done, to sibility of a U.S.-Israel mutual defense terror threats without having to first con- treaty with Netanyahu in a phone con- sult its American ally and face a potential versation last weekend has revived a veto on actions that the Jewish state feels topic that has long been a point of con- is vital to its security. tention in the think-tank world. Most of all, a mutual defense treaty On the surface, it sounds like a great would be a standing warning to nations deal for Israel. Why wouldn’t a small like Iran, which threaten Israel’s exis- nation, still beset by implacable ene- tence, that the consequences of starting mies on its borders after 71 years of a war to extinguish the Jewish state that independence, want its sole superpower it’s always threatening would be incal- ally to transform the informal commit- culable. ment to the Jewish state’s security into a Photo by Flash90 But the drawbacks of a pact are just as Israeli Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot and U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford. solemn and legal commitment? Such a obvious as its advantages. pact would, in theory, strengthen Israel’s always been a two-way street in which like a beggar who got handouts, rather While Trump is so friendly to Israel security since any opponent would know Israel gave a great deal to the Americans. than a valuable ally. A mutual defense that he might be counted on to give it going into a conflict that attacking Israel That took the form of intelligence coop- pact might help to correct that miscon- the green light to do what it thought would also mean facing the immense eration, as well as strategic assistance, ception. best to counter security threats, future might of the most powerful nation on giving the United States a stable demo- In recent years, the Jewish Institute for administrations might not take the same earth. Yet many of those concerned with cratic ally it could always depend on National Security of America, or JINSA, attitude. As Israelis learned in 2014 Israel’s security believe that, despite a conflict, in contrast to the uncertain has championed the idea. The group, during the Gaza war, the United States Trump’s good intentions, the cost of a nature of friendly Arab regimes. Yet while which has done a great deal to promote had other interests that it considered formal treaty of alliance might outweigh European nations received as much, if good relations between military leaders greater priorities than defending Israel’s the benefits. not far more, military help via America’s in both Israel and the United States, as security. The pressure from the Obama The idea has its origins in the anoma- NATO commitments, those benefits well as to support Israeli security, has administration to stop Israeli operations lous manner in which Israel has always were allocated via the Department of been working on a draft of a treaty. aimed at silencing Hamas missile fire received U.S. military assistance. The Defense, while Israel got its help via the JINSA acknowledges that formalizing from Gaza or even to eliminate its ter- alliance with the United States has foreign-aid budget. That made it seem the already close relations between the continued on page 20

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Teach your children Hold back your applause public and Hebrew schools, but for Jewish education; there are missing is the history before too many gaps in it (“Creativity, and after the Holocaust. hands-on learning allows Two major goals of Jewish Jewish education to thrive at parents are to strengthen their local Hebrew schools,” Sept. 12, children’s bonds to Judaism and Jewish Journal). Hebrew schools Israel. Both will be served by give our children a basic edu- the teaching of modern Jewish cation in Judaism, but that is history. Our history will instill not enough. The character of pride in what Jews have accom- American Jews of the twenty- plished in the last two centuries. first century was formed by epic Education about the people and events of the last 200 years of events that led to a reborn Israel Jewish history. Jewish enlight- is fundamental if our children enment, Zionism, mass emigra- are going to understand that tion from Europe, the rebirth of Israel is the fulfillment of a cen- Israel, these are the composites turies-old dream that has mean- of American Jewry; but Jewish ing for them as Jews. Teach our children know little about them. children modern Jewish history The exception to this educa- and I will join in the applause. tional void is the Holocaust. This Herbert Belkin ultimate evil is taught in both Swampscott OPINION THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – SEPTEMBER 19, 2019 7

The only cultural identity I have is Jewish

By Julia Lichtblau Do I have a right to speak as a Jew or for Jewish values? A lot of Jews would say no, ou – the readers of a Jewish news- I imagine. I wouldn’t necessarily blame paper – probably wouldn’t call me them. I can speak for my father’s legacy, YJewish. My father was a Viennese though he wasn’t a famous person. His Jew; my mother, Irish-American. My values were, in the immortal words of father, a funny guy, called me a “semi- Rabbi Hillel, “What is hateful to you, do colleen” and was known to buy green not do to your neighbor: that is the whole bagels on Saint Patrick’s Day. But the only Torah, while the rest is commentary.” He ethnic/cultural identity I have is Jewish. was one of the few profoundly virtuous My father’s Viennese Jewish family was people I’ve known. The others (my late my extended family, and my mother, mother-in-law, and two women friends) whose own mother married five times, happen to be practicing Christians, rejected Irish-American Catholic culture though I think their goodness is innate. as vulgar, cruel, and hypocritical, which They extracted the best of Christianity is how she experienced it. and made it the practice of their lives. Worse perhaps, from the perspective So here we are, with the Jewish holi- of an observant person, my so-called days approaching. My extended family is Jewish identity is not steeped in Jewish attenuated to the point of being more like ritual. My late father did have a Jewish wafting tendrils of algae than a tree; the education in Vienna – religious education alte Leute are gone, except my mother, was part of the public school curriculum. who is 95 and has dementia. My beloved At the age of 10, I discovered Habonim uncle died two years ago, his wife, nearly camps where I met people who were a lot six. My father died 15 years ago. like me, but who had two Jewish parents. We are long-lived, but infertile. That’s where I got most of my Jewish lore George Lichtblau escaped Nazi Austria in 1938 at 18, and went on to become a U.S. Neither my brother nor my one first – some Hebrew, prayers, familiarity with Foreign Service officer. cousin on my father’s side have chil- the rituals, songs, dances, as well the My father was posted to Korea in the and impoverishing public schools in the dren. I am the only one to have children. chalutznik spirit of old-fashioned Labor early 1970s, during Park Chung-hee’s dic- process. But also, repression of women; I hoped to give them a more formal Zionism. (My great-grandmother was a tatorship. After he received a somewhat the patriarchal impunity, which leads Jewish education, but both had serious Herzl, so I come by this semi-honestly.) grudging performance review, a senior to abuses similar to those of Catholic learning difficulties, and teaching them The Jewish values my father imparted officer chastised the reviewer, calling my priests; and racism. I vividly remember to read right to left without vowels was were human rights, justice, and empathy. father “the conscience of the embas- when my brown-skinned Guatemalan- beyond my capacity as a mother. Their He escaped Nazi Austria in 1938 at 18 sy.” His last post, where he thrived, was born baby daughter toddled over to Jewish legacy, as I see it, is my father’s and went on to become a Foreign Service Israel. some Orthodox children in a Manhattan conscience and decency. I gave them officer, a specialist in labor affairs in I have considered converting but park, the parents wouldn’t look at her, voter registration forms the day each developing countries. He distinguished never gone through with it because I don’t nor would the children acknowledge or turned 18. My daughter votes in every himself (though I believe it also hurt his believe in God. It is awkward, uncom- play with her. This is not the lesson election – midterms, primaries. The folks career on more than one occasion) by fortable, and sometimes painful not to Jews should derive from the Third Reich. who watch the polls in her Baltimore calling attention to human rights abuses be a “real Jew.” I’m decreasingly able to Nor is hitching one’s wagon to the loud- neighborhood are thrilled to see such a in countries where he served, even when see myself going through such a process, est, most corrupt, most venal Gentile in committed millennial voter. Her grandpa it wasn’t politically convenient in the as Judaism becomes more dominated America. Right-wing Jews will be justifi- would be too. opinion of conservative or bureaucratic by the ultra-Orthodox, whose relation- ably blamed as accomplices when san- elements in the State Department. But ship to democracy could be described ity returns. Meanwhile, the armed mon- Julia Lichtblau’s writing has appeared people who deeply distrusted Americans as exploitative, even subversive, in sters Trump let out of their cages, ever in American Fiction, The American or whites or foreigners trusted my father many respects. By this, I’m referring for ungrateful, will hate and murder Jews as Scholar, Commonweal, The Common, and took him into their confidence. He example to the Orthodox community they have for millennia. Blackbird, Narrative, The Florida Review, protected people in danger and helped taking control of local school boards in I feel both ferociously Jewish these and elsewhere. Formerly a journalist for the image of the U.S. abroad, which is upstate New York, siphoning off special days, and personally betrayed by the BusinessWeek and Dow Jones Newswires, after all the point of diplomacy, isn’t it? education subsidies to private yeshivas Trump-Orthodox-Netanyahu alliance. she lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. After Israeli election, three scenarios

By Yohanan Plesner making the prospect of another This, however, did not deter election only months away at Levi Eshkol from announc- here are three realistic any given point. ing the formation of a nation- scenarios for what will To make matters worse, if al unity government in which Thappen as a result of this such a government would Menachem Begin served as a historic vote: a third round of adopt ideas that were already cabinet minister on the eve of elections in 2019-2020; a nar- on the table during the coalition the Six-Day War. Another exam- row coalition made up of the negotiations in April and May, ple is the rotation government right-wing and ultra-Orthodox the damage to Israel’s judicial of Shimon Peres and Yitzhak parties; or a unity government. system and law-enforcement Shamir in the mid-1980s, which The question is – which option agencies might be irreversible. chalked up impressive achieve- would be most beneficial to These proposals compromised ments, including stamp- Israel’s long-term stability and a series of reforms that would ing out rapidly-rising infla- well-being. have included limiting the tion and withdrawing the IDF While a third round of elec- independence and nonpartisan from Lebanon. The same can tions seems to be quite unrea- nature of the judiciary. be said of Ariel Sharon’s unity sonable to most Israelis, the The third possibility is some government early in the early possibility of such a scenario sort of unity government. In 2000s, which was credited with could materialize. The dam- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Chief of General the past, unity governments effectively ending the Second Staff of the Israel Defense Forces Benny Gantz finished in a dead age to the country as a result heat during Israel’s second election in 2019. have been derided as “govern- Intifada. of repeated elections – for a ments of national paralysis,” The stakes we are facing are third time – would be immense. not progress with reforms to urative trees in sufficient time mainly on the diplomatic front. just as significant. As Israelis, The direct cost alone would be lower the cost of living. The to allow us to have a break from Precisely now, however, when we have shown that we can approximately 700 million shek- Interior Ministry is holding all the politicking and to return we are divided as never before, join forces only when facing an els, a sum that equals the entire back major projects needed by to the normal running of the it is possible that a unity gov- external enemy. The next round annual budget of the Science local authorities, and this in country’s affairs. ernment could calm the waters of fighting against Hezbollah Ministry. The indirect price tag the very significant first year The second scenario, a and prove that we do know how may have been postponed and for going back to the polls again of mayors’ terms. The appoint- narrow right-wing and ultra- to come together and achieve we seemed to have managed would cost the Israeli economy ments of senior officials, too Orthodox coalition has its ben- broad agreement on constitu- to get through the summer more than 2 billion shekels. – judges, the police chief – are efits. Such a government would tional issues, as well as in the without launching a ground But this is only part of the frozen. Everything is on hold be able to speak in one voice area of religion and state. If to operation in Gaza, yet now our price we have to pay for our until further notice. This stag- and pursue a coherent foreign date we have managed to unite democracy itself is at stake. current political impasse. For nation has both economic and defense policy. But the bill in the face of outside threats to This is a battle for the stability nearly a year now Israel has and national implications. for the junior partners’ sectoral our security, the time has come of our system of government, been a country frozen in time. Diplomatic processes with a and political demands in such to rise above the divisions in for social solidarity, and for the When you meet senior officials direct impact on Israeli secu- a government would amount our society when the threat is of fabric of our democratic institu- in the various ministries what rity, such as President Trump’s to billions and this at a time internal nature too. tions. you always hear from them is, peace plan, are deferred and when Israel already has to deal There have been unity This is a battle in which we “we’re treading water.” New going nowhere for the moment. with a budget deficit of more governments in the past. For must prevail. programs cannot be approved, This means that above all than 50 billion shekels. A nar- example, the ideological gulf serious processes cannot be that, once the new coalition row government that can be between the historic Mapai and Yohanan Plesner is presi- conducted and long-term negotiations get underway, it brought down by any recalci- Herut parties – forerunners of dent of the Israel Democracy plans cannot be adopted. The is important that all the politi- trant Knesset member will also today’s Likud and Labor – were Institute. Ministry of the Economy can- cians climb down from their fig- be prey to constant extortion, long considered unbridgeable. koshe_rop_Jewish_Journal_No_Boston 09/13/19 1:12:24 PM

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By M. Irving Herbster, Square were Goldstein’s Shoe Avrom Herbster, Irving Store, Gordon Realty, Alpers Sacks, Paul Ordman, Men’s Store, Hoffman’s Meat and Alan Pierce Market, Weisberg’s Meat Market, Sheinheit Kosher he first known Jewish Slaughterhouse, Karelitz settlers in Peabody were Furniture, and Mizner’s Tailor TLouis Karelitz and Charles Shop. Samuel Goldberg con- Halpert, who came from Russia structed the Sons of Israel in 1896. At the turn of the 20th Synagogue in 1913 and many century, there were about 15 houses in the East End; Samuel Jewish families in Peabody. By Marron built many of the hous- 1909, the number increased to es in South Peabody. Charles B. about 100, drawn from Russia, Smidt built the houses on Smidt Poland, Lithuania and Germany. Avenue and several apartment Many of them were experienced buildings in Peabody and Salem; leather workers in their home Samuel Tanzer had a blacksmith countries. shop in the early years; Sol These early residents were Droitiner was a real estate agent; joined by others before and after Louis Glass, who ran a grocery World War I and the Russian store, served often as an inter- Revolution. By 1920, there were preter for many who had not yet about 200 Jewish families in learned the English language; Peabody, increasing in the next Charles Halpert and Raymond 20 years to 350, as fortunate Bacherman operated steam- families escaped Eastern Europe ship travel agencies; Samuel before the Holocaust. Chiplovitz was a cattle farmer; Meanwhile, some other Morris and Nathan Goldstein Jewish residents became mer- and Samuel Ainbinder were chants and manufacturers. butcher shop owners; and Morris Peabody was known worldwide Members of Post No. 220 of the Jewish War Veterans and Auxiliary in front of a plaque commemorating Beres and Zundel Lampert were as the Leather City. In its heyday, Jewish war veterans of Peabody who served in World War II. the first fruit and vegetable ped- there were over 100 tanneries dlers. Harry Gardner operated or leather-related businesses. Jewish-owned. Pierce); Prager Leather Co.; Bond the shoe repair business, and Monarch Oil Co. Similar to the experience in the Among the leading Jewish Leather Co. (Murray Rain); Remis was later in bicycles, radios, and At the end of World War II, the shoe industry in nearby Lynn, leather firms were: Peabody Leather Co.; R.L. Leather Co. hardware. Samuel Rafey was in number of Jewish families stood Jewish immigrants were drawn Embossing Co. (Louis Meyerson); (David Rosenfelt); Korn Leather hardware; M.P. Stone and Barnet at about 400. As men returned to these cities for jobs in the Mincovitz Leather Sales; Ossoff Co.; Salloway and Salwin Leather Smidt in coal; Louis Waisberg, from the armed services, many shoe and leather factories. The Leather Co.; Pearl Embossing Co.; Shawmut Tannery (Allen Abraham Hoffman, Harry and housing developments with entrepreneurial spirit soon took Co.; and Allen Leather Co. (Allen and Charles Scholnick); Smidt Sam Bacherman, Solomon affordable residences for young root and, in short order, many and Edward Pearl); Central Leather; Barney Singer Leather Herbster, Azriel Spatrick, and families sprang up in Peabody in of these businesses became Buffing Co. (Robert and Sidney Co.; Kirstein Leather Co.; Strauss Michael Shaktman operated the the 1950s. The city’s population Tannery; Stahl Finish; N.H. Matz first grocery stores; Sam Pitcoff doubled within a decade, as did Leather Co.; Mann Leather; ran Sam’s lunch on Foster Street the numbers of Jews. Engineers, and approximately a dozen or for many years. technicians, and other young more others. Other prominent Some of the other more professional men made their individuals were Agoos, Behar, well-known Jewish-owned homes here, and by 1960 there Bycoff, Camenker, Castleman, businesses around Peabody were about 800 Jewish families. Edelstein, Edinburg, Fermon, Freedson, Fromer, Goldberg, Hershenson, Isaacson, Kaplan, Katzman, Klivansky, Lampert, Lerner, Limon, Lippa, Osman, Palais, Rabinovitz, Salloway, Savy, Silverman, Sogoloff, Steinharter, Tanzer, Tarlow, Weisman, Zabar, and Zion. Among the earliest merchants were Louis Karelitz and Jacob 45 Enon St., Beverly • 978-927-3120 Remis in furniture; Michael 919 Lynnfield St., Lynn• 781-593-1888 Berstein’s Bakery; Ellis Elmont, 637 Lowell St., Big Y Plaza, Peabody • 978-536-7010 Aaron Klivansky, Samuel Komarin, Abraham Kaplan, and Save $10 Harry and Max Herman had on purchase of $49+* shoe stores; David Rosenfelt On March 31, 1918 the Peabody Hebrew School presented a play code: JEJO1031 | expires: 10/31/2019 and Joe Levin in haberdashery; entitled Bar Kochba at City Hall. From left: Alice Komarin, Mr. Locke and Sidney Lippa in transpor- (teacher), Sadie Sogoloff, Lillian Bernstein, Morris Rosen, Rose Rubin tation. Simon Rosen started in and Jenny Salata.

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Among the earliest organiza- leather industry that supported tions in Peabody, was the local so many Jewish families came to branch of the Workmen’s Circle an end long ago, but was memo- (the Arbeiter Ring), established rialized in the 1991 PBS docu- in 1907. Founded in 1892 in New mentary “Leather Soul: Working York by immigrant Jews from for a Life in a Factory Town,” Eastern Europe, the Arbeiter narrated by Studs Terkel. Ring was inspired by social- Beginning as a small town, ist ideals to improve the lot of Peabody first made its mark as the working man in America the leading leather city of the through mutual aid and edu- United States. Now a subur- cation. One of its pillars was ban bedroom community and the preservation and transmis- the home to the largest retail sion of Jewish heritage through mall north of Boston, Peabody Yiddish. In the early 1920s, the has retained remarkable ethnic Peabody branch established diversity. The Jewish commu- the Arbeiter Ring Schule, where nity has added many sustaining Yiddish was taught for the next strands to the vibrant tapestry 30 years and included young that is Peabody, Massachusetts. girls as students. Since the beginnings of (With over a century of Jewish communities in America, Jewish life to cover with limited women have assumed lead- time and pages, the authors ership roles in organizations The cast of a Peabody Hebrew Community Center variety show in 1950. Community centers across the tried to mention as many devoted to community service North Shore frequently presented elaborate shows that not only raised funds but also served to unite people, businesses and Jewish and education. Peabody was no the community. institutions past and present exception. The Ladies Auxiliary the Congregation Anshe Sfard Today, the center of Jewish 1999, Larry Goldman and Scott in order to capture the essence of the Peabody Hebrew School, was founded under the lead- life has shifted from the central Bucklin ran Goldbuck’s Deli in of our rich Jewish history. We first located at Congregation ership of Mrs. David Herman, part of the city to West Peabody. West Peabody. Larry Levine’s realize, however, that although Sons of Israel, was a very active Mrs. Abraham Bazer, and Mrs. In the last decades, corner drug Kosher Meats and Deli may be our intentions were to be inclu- group from its inception in Michael Shaftman in 1916. stores, such as Ordman’s, oper- the only retail establishment sive, we may have left out some 1917. Among its organizers The historic Washington ated by Harry Ordman, and retail today selling an exclusively important elements of that his- were women who used their Street home of Dr. Benjamin stores such as Remis Furniture, Jewish product in the city. The tory. Please forgive our lapses.) husbands’ names, as was the Salata, a prominent dentist operated by David Remis, have custom at the time – Mrs. Max for many years, recently was been replaced by regional Korn, Mrs. Louis Karelitz, Mrs. given to the Peabody Historical and national chain stores that Philip Weinblatt, Mrs. Frank Society by his wife, Celia, and draw people from surround- CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL Hershenson, and Mrs. Regina restored as the Osborn-Salata ing communities to Peabody’s Join us for the New Year by the Beach! Strauss. The Ladies Auxiliary of House. Northshore Mall. From 1983 to No membership or seating fees.

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Arlekin Players dig for Yetti Frenkel exhibit opens at Pingree answers in ‘The Stone’ orth Shore artist Yetti Frenkel is one of more than 40 sculptors whose are suspended on the ceiling, above Nwork is on display at the tenth annu- a tilted piano. Are the histories of al Flying Horse Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit the play’s diverse characters equally on the campus of Pingree School in South tilted? Is the legend that Hannah, the Hamilton from Sept. 1 through Nov. 30. contemporary heroine, has learned Her piece, “Cycles,” is from a series of about her grandfather, genuine? Did whimsical and surrealistic depictions of he actually finance the escape and women and cats. visas of a Jewish family via Amsterdam Frenkel is drawn to the small moments to the United States? Does the title of drama in daily life: the lonely child, the stone allude to the actions of the weary commuter, the hopeful gambler. Nazis? The answers have as much to Additionally, Frenkel is a painter, mosa- say about the dark side of humanity ic artist, art teacher, and book illustra- and the inaccuracies of memory as tor, as well as a sculptor. To date, she has they do about what it means to be a painted murals for nine public libraries in Photo: Irina Danilova hero to younger family members. Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Now a David Gamarnik and Olga Sokolova in Director Igor Golyak’s pacing is resident of Newburyport, she grew up in “The Stone.” strong, and the play’s actors work well Lynn and earned her BFA from the School of By Jules Becker together. Olga Sokolova is a standout, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT capturing the angst and disillusion of Hannah when she speaks about What is your Jewish background? ast season, talented artistic her family. Viktorya Kovalenko con- My father was Jewish, rescued by the director Igor Golyak examined veys the determination of Heidrun, Quakers who funded a Kinder Transport to Lthe odyssey of a maturing fic- Hannah’s mother, and the daughter get him out of Austria before the Nazis took tional Russian writer in the drama of the German couple who bought over. His parents were not so lucky and died “Dead Man’s Diary” at Arts Emerson’s the house from the Jews in the ’30s, in Auschwitz. My mother was German and Liebgott Theatre with remarkable to uncover the truth. Darya Denisova stayed in Berlin during the war. She was the sensitivity. Now Arlekin Players opens has the right frantic quality as bureau chief for an East German newspaper its 10th anniversary season with the Heidrun’s mother, the weary Witha. and was covering the War Crimes Trials in Yetti Frenkel’s “Cycles” at Pingree School. same rich intimacy – this time in David Gamarnik smoothly balances Nuremberg when she met my father. He was I was young, I filled notebooks with stories. a visually arresting staging of the the contradictory reserve and sudden working as an interpreter, and from what Words came easily and seemed to flow from Marius von Mayenburg’s 2008 play volatility of Wolfgang, Witha’s hus- they told me they knew they would get mar- my pen. Something changed in adolescence “The Stone” at its own cozy venue in band. Rimma Gluzman is command- ried within an hour of meeting each other. and I found drawing easier. My second love, Needham. ingly imperious as Mieze, the Jewish This story was both romantic and very however, was not art but animals, and I Set in Dresden, Germany from wife, particularly when she stands sad; my mother’s father had been affected really wanted to become an animal trainer, 1935 to 1993, Mayenburg’s insight- her ground about the home’s signa- by mustard gas during the First World War specifically working with horses. My parents ful play explores the truths and lies ture piano. and apparently never recovered, and my own were skeptical of this, both because horses alternately buried and uncovered in During a pivotal thunderstorm grandparents had been killed for being mem- are dangerous and because they doubted I the garden and dirt of a house that sequence, all six ensemble cast mem- bers of a persecuted minority group. I think could make a decent living. They encour- a Jewish family reluctantly sells dur- bers don rain gear and sit together. Is that knowing this history and having both a aged me to be an artist, which seems really ing Hitler’s rise. That home becomes von Mayenburg intimating hope even German mother and a Jewish father whose strange in hindsight, given that artists are a character in its own right – kudos during a moment of despair? Is it an families had both suffered during the war the least financially secure people on the to David R. Gammons’ disarming- advisory about the power of family made me see suffering as a human condition, planet except for a minor few superstars, but ly captivating scenography – over and human connection? No matter not limited in scope or scale to one particular perhaps they were thinking of the respect the course of seven decades, as the how you view the result, Golyakin has group. It may have made me more empa- that artists were given in Europe. In any case, lighting of the house brightens and clearly polished “The Stone” with the thetic, but it also made me a lifelong outsider. I went to art school and never looked back. dims with the fortunes of the house’s care of a master sculptor. inhabitants. When did you know you wanted to be The Flying Horse Outdoor Sculpture In this house rich in metaphor, “The Stone,” Arlekin Players an artist? Were you encouraged by your Exhibit is open to the public seven days a dirt and earth lie below an elegant Theatre, Needham, through Sept. 29. family? 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NOTICES CHAPPER, Rosalie, 97 – GARBER, Irving H., DMD, Perlman Guarino, and father- INDOOR SHOWROOM late of Swampscott. Died on 92 – formerly of Lynn in-law of Jeffrey Baron and HUNDREDS OF MEMORIALS September 14, 2019. Wife of and Marblehead. Died on David Guarino. Grandfather of the late John Chapper. Mother September 9, 2019. Husband of Owen Robert Guarino, Jacob NO SUB-CONTRACTING of Barbara Fleischer (Frank), the late Ella (Lehrman) Garber. Laurence Guarino, and Amelia IN-HOUSE DESIGN & MANUFACTURING Leslie Male (Bruce), and Fran Father of Robin Kaufman and Rose Baron. Son of the late Michaels. Grandmother of her husband Dr. Clark Kaufman, Samuel and Rose Perlman. David Fleischer (Veronica), Dr. Michael Garber and his (Stanetsky-Hymanson) O’ROURKE BROS. 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(Julia), and Alanna Krowiak; www.obmemorials.com of Howard Sandler, MD and his (Stanetsky-Hymanson) Juliana and Dayton Fisher. wife Marcia, Barbara Freedman, Great-grandfather Quinn and “Serving the Jewish Community since 1890” DORFMAN, Alice (Susmano­ DDS and her husband Charles, Fiona Kaufman, and Jaron vitz) – late of Revere and and the late Brenda Sandler. and Layla Kaufman. Brother of Chelsea. Died on September Grandmother of Adam Sandler Sippie Webman, the late Aaron 14, 2019. Wife of the late Saul and his wife Randi, Matthew Garber, and the late Goldie David Dorfman. Daughter of the Sandler, and Beth, Brooke Glickman. Son of the late Paul late Louis and Bessie (Porte) and Yale Friedman. Great- and Sarah Garber. (Stanetsky- Susmanovitz. Mother of Howard grandmother of Marley and Hymanson) Dorfman and his wife Susan, Ann Spencer Sandler. Sister of the Adell and her husband Steven, PERLMAN, Laurence N., 78 late Bernard Haverback, MD, and the late Michael Dorfman. – formerly of Pawtucket and Chester Haverback, MD, Evelyn Grandmother of Shayna and Providence, R.I., and of Salem. Richelson, and Rose Haverback. Cara Dorfman, Joshua and his Died on September 11, 2019. Harriet was an opera singer, wife Tara, and Rachel and her Husband of Roberta (Wittner) concert violinist, and book- husband Bernie. Predeceased Perlman. Father of Melanie keeper. Family-owned and operated since 1933 by her six siblings. (Torf) Perlman Baron and Heidi Police arrest local Duluth resident as suspect in Minnesota synagogue fire Police in Duluth, Minn. tiple Torah scrolls, before the saying they might have to find a arrested a man on Friday in building burned down. 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Similarly, it is arguable despite Israel’s understand- Defense pact that a treaty between the two ing that America’s desires must Women’s March cuts ties with three from page 6 countries might have stopped be given great deference, the co-founders accused of anti-Semitism ror tunnels was immense. At Menachem Begin from order- Jewish state’s imperative to that time, America’s leverage ing an airstrike on Iraqi dic- protect its people from deadly over Israel was mainly in the tator Saddam Hussein’s Osirak foes can’t be ignored in order to form of its ability to withhold nuclear reactor in 1981 or Ehud please Washington. vital shipments of ammunition. Olmert’s decision to take out Seen in that light, perhaps If Obama had the leverage of a Syria’s nuclear program in 2007. Israel is better off retaining its treaty, the problem might have It’s also true that although freedom of action than getting a been worse. Obama’s 10-year commitment commitment to its security from Indeed, as Israel learned in to military aid to Israel seemed the Americans. Indeed, such a the weeks leading up to the 1967 like a gift, its purpose was as pact might only be of value in Six-Day War and then during much to handcuff Israel’s free- wars in which U.S. assistance the 1973 Yom Kippur War, even dom of action with respect to might come too late to be of any American administrations that Gaza or Iran as it was to help. utility. So while Trump deserves were favorable to Israel didn’t What these examples remind credit for thinking of Israel as hesitate to use their leverage us is that although Israel and an ally rather than a burden, as to advance their own perceived the United States are united by Obama seemed to do, it might interests, even if it meant mak- common values and interests be better for both nations to Women’s March leaders Tamika Mallory, Bob Bland, Carmen Perez ing the Jewish state’s situation as fellow democracies, no two table the discussion of a mutu- and Linda Sarsour. more perilous. That was also nations’ security interests are al defense pact that might be The Women’s March has cut However, Sarsour, a true with respect to President the same. The United States more trouble than it’s worth. ties with three of its founders Palestinian American, has been George H.W. Bush’s not-so-sub- will, even under the friendliest who have been accused of anti- an outspoken critic of Israel and tle request that Israel not retali- presidents, perceive its interests Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in Semitism. has supported the BDS move- ate against Saddam’s SCUD in the Middle East as encom- chief of JNS.org. Linda Sarsour, Tamika ment; the Anti-Defamation missile attacks on the Jewish passing issues that transcend Mallory and Bob Bland stepped League says her BDS advocacy state during the first Gulf war. what is good for Israel. And down from the board on July “encourages and spreads anti- 15, according to The Washington Semitism.” Similarly, Mallory Post. The movement told the has been closely aligned with outlet that the three would Farrakhan. “transition off of the Women’s Both Sarsour and Mallory A1 Will Send Hornets Packing. March Board and onto other have been repeatedly slammed projects focused on advocacy for praising Farrakhan, a known Nests can hold thousands of hornets and within their respective organi- anti-Semite whose annual are aggressive and can sting repeatedly. zations.” Saviour’s Day was attended Sarsour became an offi- last February by Mallory, where cial surrogate last week for the Farrakhan said “the powerful Democratic presidential cam- Jews are my enemy.” paign of Sen. Bernie Sanders In the wake of the Pittsburgh (I-Vt.). synagogue shooting in October The Women’s March move- 2018, scrutiny over anti-Sem- ment began as a reaction to itism within the leadership of the election of U.S. President the Women’s March began to Donald Trump in 2016 as oppo- increase. Actress Alyssa Milano, sition to his positions on wom- a prominent member of the en’s rights, as well as on other #MeToo movement, and actress issues such as LBGTQ rights, Debra Messing said they would racial equality, gender equal- not speak at the 2019 Women’s ity, disability rights, the envi- March because of Sarsour and ronment and other progressive Mallory’s refusal to distance causes. Millions turned out in themselves from Farrakhan. marches across America the “Any time that there is any day after Trump’s inauguration, bigotry or anti-Semitism in that and the movement has since respect, it needs to be called continued with chapters across out and addressed. I’m disap- the United States and the world, pointed in the leadership of organizing and holding events the Women’s March that they and rallies, in addition to celeb- haven’t done it adequately,” rities and others continuing to Milano said in a November speak on the movement’s ideals. interview.

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Ruth Farber celebrates 100th birthday Born on Aug. 30, 1919 in Quincy, Ruth Goldstein Farber was the middle sister in a family of five girls. When Ruth met her future husband Irving Farber, it was love at first sight. In 1940, they were determined to get married – even though it was during WW II and Irving was in the military. In fact, a few days before the cer- emony, Irving found out there were no more furloughs avail- able. But that didn’t stop the couple. Irving came home any- ways, and the rest, as they say, is history. Ruth and Irving raised three wonderful sons – first in Lynn and then in Swampscott. Sadly, the couple’s only daugh- ter passed away from leukemia Ruth Farber at nine-months-old. For more than 40 years, well as their two children Jill and Irving and Ruth built a success- Daniel. Ruth is also the proud ful shoe business. The original great-grandmother of five. store, located on Market Street A resident of Kaplan Estates in Lynn, was called Farber’s. for three years, Ruth is beloved Yuri Shamritsky, DMD, DDS Their second store, known as by staff and residents alike. “It is Dalton’s Shoes, was located on truly a joy having Ruth as a resi- Fiza Singh, DDS, MMSc, FRCD(c) Broad Street. It became one of dent,” said Megin Hemmerling, the city’s most popular retailers. executive director of Harriett Paul B. Talkov, DMD, CAGS Customer service was the num- and Ralph Kaplan Estates. “She ber one priority for Ruth. As her and her family are incredibly Andrea Chung Shah, DMD son Jerry Farber says, “My mom kind, thoughtful and treat our James V. Pastore, DMD always put the customer first. staff like family. Ruth’s smile is If there were three people wait- infectious. She is quick to offer a Miguel A. Roque, DMD, MMSc ing in the store, she would not kind word or positive remark. In hesitate to spend an hour or two short, we all adore her!” Brookline Peabody Lynn Newboryport Gloucester Beverly helping the person who arrived The birthday party at Kaplan (978) 288-1589 first,” he said. Not surprisingly, Estates on August 30 was a Ruth and Irving built up a very delightful event for all. Family FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT: WWW.NSBENDO.COM loyal customer base. “Everyone members, friends, staff and resi- loved them.” dents gathered together to mark Ruth and Irving were very the occasion. There were tears active in the Lynn Merchant’s in Ruth’s eyes as Ellen Gordon, Association as well as Temple director of Resident Life for Beth El in Swampscott. Ruth Chelsea Jewish Lifecare, read and Irving spent their retired a letter from the White House years living in Del Ray Florida, congratulating Ruth on this where Ruth was an avid bridge milestone event. Ruth was very player and loved to play touched. Scrabble. Irving passed away in Jerry Farber summed Ruth 2006 at the age of 88. Today, up best. “My mother is a beauti- Skin care is an investment Ruth enjoys spending time with ful person – both inside and out. son Jerry and his wife Rikki as She is so very special,” he said. ...one you’ll never regret! C-Teen set to provide Jewish programs for teens in Peabody C-Teen is the teen division of the interna- tional Chabad move- ment. With consulta- tion of some of the top experts in the country, and creative curricula, C-Teen has been able to engage teens around the world. One year ago, Chabad of Peabody launched its C-teen chapter trial. With the success of last year’s programs – engag- ing some 20 teens over the course of its inau- gural year – Chabad is redoubling its efforts with more creative pro- gramming this year. The C-Teen will launch with a Game Truck event on Monday, Sept. 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Chabad of Peabody, 682 Lowell St., Peabody. Full Service Skin Care and Beauty Practice The event will feature a traveling game truck with all the latest games and gadgetry to appeal to the minds and hearts of the teen- agers. Each event has a short study component where teens will learn about their Jewish Heritage. Teens will also take part in a communi- ty service project, such as packing care packages for the homeless. “My main goal is to engage these children Jewishly, socially, so that they mingle and hang out with fellow Jewish teens, said Raizel Schusterman, the program’s director. 8 Spring Street Marblehead, Massachusetts All C-Teen events are for girls and boys from 8th grade and up. All events are free and open to all teenagers of the Jewish commu- 781.983.7343 HVWESTHETICS.COM nity. No temple affiliation is necessary. To find out more or to RSVP, visit Jewishpeabody.com or call 978-977-9111, or email [email protected]. PEOPLE THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – SEPTEMBER 19, 2019 23

Brothers hosts 9/11 tribute Temple Beth Shalom welcomes new rabbi

Rabbi Jessica Lowenthal is the new rabbi and education director at Temple Beth Shalom in Melrose. Sara Serisky, Temple Beth Shalom’s president, said: “I’m extremely happy to have Rabbi Lowenthal become the spiritual leader of our family-oriented synagogue. Temple Beth Shalom is both a Reform synagogue and a Jewish Community Center. We strive to create a spirit of unity and are confident that Rabbi Lowenthal will continue our tra- dition.” Lowenthal was ordained at Temple Sinai in Brookline. She Past Department Commander Jack Romo, National Chief of Staff Barry Lischinsky, Department Hebrew College in Newton. has been trained in multiple Commander Jeffrey Blonder, Kary Andrinopoulos, Rabbi Richard Perlman, Jeff Silverman, Jim Horwitz, During her schooling, she Holocaust curricula, such as Melvin Babner and past Post Commander Moe Sack at New Brothers Restaurant & Deli. worked for the University of “Facing History and Ourselves” Rhode Island’s Hillel and was and “Echoes and Reflections.” Each Sept. 11, Kary the innocent victims of that Lehman along with members of a founding participant of the Lowenthal obtained her MBA Andrinopoulos, owner of New day. This year, Rabbi Richard the Post participated in a 9/11 Hillel Rabbinic Fellowship. Most in nonprofit management and Brothers Restaurant & Deli of Perlman, of Peabody’s Temple Day of Remembrance. recently she served as the rab- her MA in Jewish Leadership Danvers, pays tribute to the fall- Ner Tamid, chanted the El Mole The event is an annu- binic intern at Temple Israel through the Hornstein program en victims of the tragic events of Rachamim (Prayer for the Soul al event sponsored by Kary in Boston and Temple Beth at Brandeis University. She Sept. 11, 2001, and honors the of the Departed) in memory Andrinopoulos, his family and Shalom in Framingham. completed her BA at George first responders and the military of all individuals who passed staff of New Brothers Restaurant Lowenthal has also been Washington University in that dedicated endless hours of on that day. In addition, JWV & Deli of Danvers. teaching Hebrew school for Religion and Judaic Studies. She service to help triage and treat MA Post 220 Commander Alan over a decade. Additionally, she grew up in Framingham and helped reshape and run the now lives with her husband, two Maryansky joins Epstein Hillel post-B’nai Mitzvah program at sons, and dog in Dedham.

Epstein Hillel School in resource to parents, community Marblehead is excited to wel- members, and local preschool elaine monaco, IDS, WCAA come Natalie Maryansky, teachers on timely issues that LICSW, as the new full-time affect children’s social emotion- Director of Student Services. al and academic development, She assumed the position in such as growth mindset, screen Receive concierge August after the retirement of time/technology, and executive Dr. Nancy Harrison in June. functioning. service with your In keeping with EHS’s firm Maryansky holds a master’s own designer. belief and commitment to nur- in Social Work from Simmons turing all aspects of children’s College; MTEL Certification in Call Elaine today! growth and development, Communication and Literacy, Maryansky will continue to and is licensed as a School Social teach Social Thinking lessons. and feedback. Worker/Adjustment Counselor. Social Thinking is curriculum Maryansky will facilitate Prior to joining EHS, she worked that helps children to learn the Learning Center by work- as a school-based clinician in the lifelong skills, such as how to ing with learning specialists and Boston Public Schools with the recognize the size of a problem classroom teachers to provide Children’s Wellness Initiative. and one’s reaction to it, how to support to children who are Maryansky and her husband, respectfully disagree, and how learning either above or below Brian, live in Salem with their to give and receive compliments grade level. She will also be a five-month-old daughter.

Weiner elected national commander Beverly dentist volun- of The Jewish War Veterans of the USA teers in Jerusalem clinic

The Jewish War Veterans of the USA announced that Harvey Weiner was elected National 978-750-0100 Commander at the 124th Mon-Sat: 6am - 9pm ~ Sunday: 6am - 8pm Annual National Convention in Richmond, Virginia. Harvey served as the National Judge Advocate since 2013. He previously served on the National Executive Committee, as Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Committee and as Vice expires October 31, 2019 President of the National Court. He is the past Commander of the Massachusetts Department and past Post Commander of the the Armed Forces and the U.S. Earlier this month, Dr. Eli Newton-Brookline Post #211. Court of Appeals for Veterans Davidyan spent a week volun- He is a life member of the JWV, Claims. teering at the Trudi Birger Dental the Vietnam Veterans of America Harvey is active in the Jewish Clinic in Jerusalem, through a and the Disabled American community. He is past presi- special program called Dental Veterans. He is a life member dent of Temple Beth Avodah Volunteers for Israel (DVI). DVI of and General Counsel to the in Newton and was on its provides free dental care and National Museum of American Executive Board for 25 years. He oral health education to thou- Jewish Military History. has been the JWV representative sands of needy children in Harvey is a Vietnam War com- on the Greater Boston Jewish Jerusalem every year, regardless bat veteran, who, as an Army Community Relations Council of race and religion, thanks to Captain, was an intelligence for 13 years. the benevolent support from advisor to the Vietnamese. His Harvey has practiced friends and visiting volunteer combat experience includes civil litigation in Boston at dentists from around the world. small raids, night ambushes, Peabody & Arnold for over 47 Eli came to Israel with his four mortar and rocket attacks, years. He is president of the sons, and several other dentists sniper fire and land mines. He Massachusetts Bar Foundation with whom he has volunteered was the recipient of the Bronze and past president of the in other parts of the world, Star among other decorations. Federal Bar Association (Mass. including Mongolia, Cambodia, KARAOKE After the war, he returned to Ft. Chapter), the Boston Inn of Guatemala, Cape Verde, and on Fridays and ORDER ONLINE AT: Dix, N.J., where he was a Chief Court, and the Massachusetts Nepal. Saturdays from www.fantasyislandsalem.com Investigating Officer. Municipal Lawyers Association. DVI provides critical basic Harvey is a U.S. Department Harvey has been married for services to the poverty stricken 8:30 pm to 516 Loring Avenue, Salem of Veterans Affairs Accredited over 52 years to Linda, has two communities of Jerusalem and 12:30 am! Tel: (978) 745-1700 Attorney and is admitted to both children, and lives in Newton. treats disadvantaged children Fax: (978) 740-9121 the U.S. Court of Appeals for and at-risk youth. 24 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – SEPTEMBER 19, 2019 COMMUNITY NEWS

H onorableonorable Menschion:Menschion: EricEric KahnKahn By Steven A. Rosenberg JOURNAL STAFF

ric Kahn was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1929. As a child, he was forced to wear the yellow Star of David whenever he went Eoutside of his house. In 1945, the Germans forced him, his father, and brother to board a train for the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. After the camp was liberated by the Red Army, his family moved to New York. He became a mechanical engineer, married his wife Ruth, and settled in Swampscott with his two children. His daughter, Lisa, lives in New Jersey and is married to Rabbi Eric Traiger; they are the parents of Baila and Ashie. His son Mark lives in California. A A A Eric, could you tell us about myself were sent to Theresienstadt. My your family and upbringing? mother was able to stay in Wiesbaden because she had been born Christian. My father, Max, who volunteered for The so-called “Aryan partners” were the German Army during World War I, not deported. There were three other had a wholesale brush business, and my families like that in Wiesbaden. mother, Irma – who was born Christian On Feb. 10, 1945, we had to report and converted to Judaism before I to the railroad station in Wiesbaden was born – grew up in Wiesbaden. My and they put us on a passenger train in father came from an Orthodox fam- Frankfurt. There, they put us on a cattle Eric Kahn, far right, with his family. ily and we observed kashrut and went car train – about 40 people in each to synagogue and kept Shabbat. My car – it was a three-day ride. The doors facts. Even in Theresienstadt, there was did design and development engineer- father’s family had been in Germany were locked from the outside and there no knowledge. People there did not ing on jet aircraft engines. It was a sat- for hundreds of years, and my mother’s was no room to lie down and we were know that Jews were being killed in isfying career. family tree in Germany goes back to in darkness. The only food we had was Auschwitz and the other camps. Tens of 1200. After my father’s premature death whatever we had brought along. Once transports of 1,000 prisoners each were You’re still actively involved in 1949, my mother provided a loving a day, they opened the doors from the sent from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz in Judaism? home for my brother Gunther and me outside and people relieved themselves in 1943 and 1944. Yes. I lead the minyan on Thursday for many years. on the tracks. nights at Shirat Hayam [in Swampscott]. When was the camp liberated? When did you realize that Jews It’s a service for people who have to say What was it like in The Red Army liberated the camp were in danger in Germany? Kaddish and keeps up the tradition. I Theresienstadt? on May 8, 1945, the last day of WW II. was privileged to serve as president of After the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, It was run by uniformed Czech There was some shooting in the morn- the former Temple Beth El from 1982 the Germans decreed that Jews couldn’t policemen and the SS. When I was ing, but the Germans were retreating. to 1984. go to public schools anymore. So they there, they brought in the Red Cross I was on a roof picking weeds and I opened a Jewish school and the teach- You talk to groups, and and used it as a propaganda tool. The heard some shots, and a bullet whis- ers were really good – they had been Nazis wanted to show the world that tling by – and then it was quiet. It was students about the Holocaust. fired from their previous positions at all these rumors about killings in con- a nice, sunny May day and birds were I started to speak publicly many public schools. I had great friends in centration camps were not true. They singing. That evening a Russian tank years ago about the Holocaust – mostly school until June 10, 1942. On that day, arranged a movie, and filmed prison- showed up in the main square and that in memory of the kids who I went to my schoolmates were deported to the ers. They had an orchestra put on per- was the end of the war for us. school with who didn’t survive and Sobibor extermination camp. I was formances and plays. were killed by the Nazis. The first time I not sent because my mother was born Your whole family survived? They did not gas people to death spoke it was to a youth group at Temple Christian, even though she had con- there, although a gas chamber was Yes. My father and brother and I sur- Israel. Then I spoke in public schools verted to Judaism. I am the only person under construction. We were starving vived. But right after the war, nobody – in Swampscott, Marblehead, and at in my class who survived. Everyone else and there was a lack of medical care. could leave the camp because there North Shore Community College. I told was murdered by the Nazis. Supposedly there were three meals was a typhoid epidemic in the camp. them the story of what happened dur- How was life after that? a day, but it was just watery soup. Transports from Bergen-Belsen [exter- ing the Nazi persecution of Jews. Everyone once in a while you’d get a mination camp] brought it in. We were I wanted to try to prevent hate from I got a final report card in June 1942 quarantined until the middle of June. and from then on I had no schooling. piece of bread or a potato. spreading and make them aware that When we left, we had no transpor- it is important to speak up and not be During the day, we couldn’t do any- Did you know what was tation. It took us 10 days to go from thing – I couldn’t ride a bike or go to a a bystander when bad things are hap- happening to the Jews taken Theresienstadt to Wiesbaden. We got pening. park. I did a lot of reading. Every time rides by horse-drawn carriages, trains, we went out kids would throw rocks by the Nazis? and a U.S. Army Jeep. We reunited with Are you concerned about the at us, and yell “Jew, Jew, Jew.” My par- We did not know until the war was my mother and in July of 1946, we resurgence of anti-Semitism in ents tried to leave for the U.S. but they over that extermination camps were in came to New York. couldn’t get a sponsor. We also tried to operation and that the people that were America? go to Greece and Sweden and England, deported were murdered. We didn’t Where did you settle? I’m concerned about the tendency but nothing worked out. We stayed in know. We didn’t hear anything. There Initially we stayed at a [Hebrew to extreme nationalism, because the Wiesbaden until my father, brother, and were some rumors but we didn’t have Immigrant Aid Society] home in the Nazis were driven by that philosophy. Lower East Side, then we lived in I’m concerned about the excesses of Brooklyn, in a small house owned nationalism. I’m not sure if Trump is by Edward G. Robinson’s brother. He intentionally doing this, but I think was a dentist, and we lived above his the idea of going to a one-man dic- dental office. He couldn’t believe we tatorship seems to appeal to Trump, hadn’t heard of his famous brother [the so any tendency in that direction is actor]. We lived in New York until 1957. bad for America. It leads the country I worked fixing cameras during the day away from democratic principles. In and at night I went to evening high Germany before Hitler, democracy was school and graduated in 1948. I worked a big ideal and they had more or less days and went to CCNY City College at achieved it until Hitler came along and night. I majored in mechanical engi- blamed the Jews for losing the first neering. Because I was working full- World War and initiating the Holocaust. time fixing cameras, I went to school What’s the future for Jews in at night, and it took six years. Then I went to work for Curtiss-Wright in New America? Jersey, reviewing hardware for aircraft I am optimistic. Whatever tenden- engines. In 1958, I was hired by GE in cies are in the opposite direction will Cincinnati – I did design engineering play themselves out. I don’t think work, jet engine gearboxes. I trans- America will ever become a Nazi-like ferred to GE in Lynn in 1959. I married dictatorship. We have the Constitution; Ruth in 1961 – my love from Peabody. I there is a common sense among the Photo: Steven A. Rosenberg/Journal Staff worked at GE for 33 years, and retired people, and they will not allow this to “I’m concerned about the excesses of nationalism,” said Kahn, who survived in 1990 as manager of a sub-section. I happen. Theresienstadt.